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Alonzo Skelton
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A Perfect Windsor

A Man’s tie defines a marriage David flipped through the ties at the back of his closet. Regimental stripes, paisleys, geometrics, and abstract allusions to Georgia O’Keefe represented four decades of colors, patterns, and textures in men’s neckwear. The fashion parade ended with a bold red and yellow from the…

Fiction

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A Perfect Windsor
A Perfect Windsor
Fiction

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Kant and the Criminal

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”-Immanuel Kant The ethics of Aristotle taught young men his virtues as a moral code and as key to happiness until 529 C.E., when Byzantine Emperor Justinian I converted the…

Immanuel Kant

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Kant and the Criminal
Kant and the Criminal
Immanuel Kant

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Bonk

Fiction — “No adultery is bloodless. ”— Natalia Ginzburg Afterward, they lay coiled in each other’s arms. Downstairs, the band shrieked a bad cover of a James Brown number that competed with a chugging window air conditioner. Aaron nuzzled Doris’ neck, just below an ear. …

Adultery

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Bonk
Bonk
Adultery

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The Phoebe Effect

I see cars, jammed side by side as far as my restricted view permits me to see through a narrow-slatted window in the rest home rec room. A perfect light, light from a photographer’s dream world, contrasts the cars in gleam and shadow. In such light, I see how the…

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Yarn

I suppose you’ve heard about what that Bauer boy did with the Waters girl that got him sent to prison. Yes? Then you must know that Gloria Waters and Nick Ricci became a couple while Conrad Bauer was put away in LaGrange prison for statutory rape. …

Fiction

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Yarn
Yarn
Fiction

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Aug 14

Celebrating Slaughter

Facebook, Twitter (!?) and social media in general, do not offer a forum for robust debate on contentious subjects, making it necessary to keep discussions focused narrowly on select topics. Nowhere is that more evident than in arguments over “Gun Rights” vs. “Gun Control.” In those discussions, pro-gun advocates (and…

Mass Shootings

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Celebrating Slaughter
Celebrating Slaughter
Mass Shootings

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Aug 3

Injustice Served

“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain — do something to make more money yourself.” “They say that if you give your children too much, they don’t get the joy out of work. They just…

One Percenter

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Injustice Served
Injustice Served
One Percenter

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Jul 28

The Great American Dumb-Down

“For what a man had rather were true, he more readily believes.” — Francis Bacon “Because it takes nothing on faith, science is inherently antiauthoritarian, and a great equalizer of political power. That is why it is under attack.” -Shawn Otto, The War on Science, p. 41, Minneapolis (2016 ) …

Anti Intellectualism

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The Great American Dumb-Down
The Great American Dumb-Down
Anti Intellectualism

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Jun 24

God’s Graffiti

I’ve almost finished reading Revolutionary Characters, by historian Gordon S. Wood, and have recently read biographies on George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. I intend to squeeze in Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton as soon as I can acquire the books, and I’ll look up the others on the…

History

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God’s Graffiti
God’s Graffiti
History

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Jun 19

Cross-Dressing on the Elizabethan Stage

In William Shakespeare’s time, the depiction on stage of a young, respectable, unmarried woman ran counter to social conventions. When playwrights presented contemporary works or modernized Greek Drama, they changed the character from female to male, or — where the character’s gender gave the play its form and plot —…

Shakespeare

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Cross-Dressing on the Elizabethan Stage
Cross-Dressing on the Elizabethan Stage
Shakespeare

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Alonzo Skelton

Alonzo Skelton

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Lifelong amateur writer aiming for professional status in my retirement.

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